Package: octave-geometry Version: 3.0.0-6+b2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
The DESCRIPTION file for this package has invalid lines - continued lines that do not start with a space. They generate warning messages when any Octave package (not just this one) is installed or removed, as follows: $ sudo apt-get install octave-ltfat-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: octave-ltfat-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 13 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/2,265 kB of archives. After this operation, 7,263 kB of additional disk space will be used. /usr/share/apt-listchanges/apt_listchanges.py:540: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 25 email_re = re.compile(r'([a-zA-Z0-9_\+\-\.]+)@(([[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)') N: Ignoring file '50unattended-upgrades.ucftmp' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension Selecting previously unselected package octave-ltfat-common. (Reading database ... 1004163 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../octave-ltfat-common_2.3.1+dfsg-1_all.deb ... Unpacking octave-ltfat-common (2.3.1+dfsg-1) ... Processing triggers for octave (4.4.1-2+b1) ... warning: pkg: skipping invalid line in DESCRIPTION file warning: called from get_description at line 49 column 9 rebuild at line 52 column 12 pkg at line 540 column 25 warning: pkg: skipping invalid line in DESCRIPTION file warning: called from get_description at line 49 column 9 rebuild at line 52 column 12 pkg at line 540 column 25 warning: pkg: skipping invalid line in DESCRIPTION file warning: called from get_description at line 49 column 9 rebuild at line 52 column 12 pkg at line 540 column 25 warning: pkg: skipping invalid line in DESCRIPTION file warning: called from get_description at line 49 column 9 rebuild at line 52 column 12 pkg at line 540 column 25 Setting up python3 (3.7.1-2) ... Here's a patch: --- ../DESCRIPTION 2018-11-22 14:45:21.906419837 -0500 +++ DESCRIPTION 2018-11-22 14:44:35.838331755 -0500 @@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ Version: 3.0.0 Date: 27-03-2017 Author: Juan Pablo Carbajal <ajuanpi+...@gmail.com>, -Philip Neuhius <prnienh...@users.sf.net>, -Simeon Simeonov <ss...@cam.ac.uk>, -David Legland <david.legl...@nantes.inra.fr>, + Philip Neuhius <prnienh...@users.sf.net>, + Simeon Simeonov <ss...@cam.ac.uk>, + David Legland <david.legl...@nantes.inra.fr>, Maintainer: Juan Pablo Carbajal <ajuanpi+...@gmail.com> Title: Computational Geometry Description: Library for geometric computing extending MatGeom functions. -Useful to create, transform, manipulate and display geometric primitives. + Useful to create, transform, manipulate and display geometric primitives. Depends: octave (>= 4.0.1) Autoload: no License: GPLv3+, FreeBSD, Boost v1.0 - Jim Van Zandt -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages octave-geometry depends on: ii libc6 2.27-8 ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-9 ii libgomp1 8.2.0-9 ii liboctave6 4.4.1-2+b1 ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-9 ii octave 4.4.1-2+b1 ii python 2.7.15-3 ii python-lxml 4.2.5-1 octave-geometry recommends no packages. octave-geometry suggests no packages. -- no debconf information